Trunk and condenser for cotton-gins



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V (LYOUNG TRUNK AND CONDENSER FOR GQTTON GINS- (No Model.)

. UNITED STATES PATENT CORNELIUS YOUNG, OF sELMA, ALABAMA.

TRUNK AND CONDENSER FOR COTTON-GINS.

SPECIFIGATIONfOrming part of Letters Iatent No. 412,690, dated October 8, 1889.

Application filed May 2, 1889.

To aZZ- whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, CORNELIUS YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Selma, in the county of Dallas and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks and Condensers for COtton-Gins5'and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descjription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon,'which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of the trunk and condenser of a cotton-gin con. structed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view thereof, and Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section thereof.

This invention relates to certain improvements in fiues and condensers for use in connection with cotton-gins of ordinary construction; and the invention consists of the novel combination and construction of parts, as will fully appear from the following description and accompanying illustration.

In the organization of my invention I employ an inclined trunk A, which has two flues B B The flue B connects with the opening in rear of the gin, through which the cot-ton is blown by the blast from the gin-brush. The front upper end of flue B is covered with wire-cloth B O is the cylinder, suitably hung in position upon the supporting-frame at its upper end, and is driven by a pulley a, receiving its motion through a belt (notshown) extending from a pulley on the gin-saw shaft. (Not shown.) The cylinder 0 is divided into radial compartments 0 c by partitions or blades 0 0 and has in each head 0 c a series of openings 0 0 there being two coincident openings for each compartment 0, which openings are covered with wire-cloth c or otherwise suitably screened.

D is a hinged cap or semicircular chamber fitting down over and partly covering the cylinder O and having its bottom or surface next to the cylinder formed of wire cloth D the Serial No. 309,377. (No model.)

outer lower edgeof said cap being hinged to the top of thetrunk A, The cap D has approximately semicircular side portions D upon the upper edges of which are suitably secured the boards D forming the top, and to the outside of the side portions D are applied hooks cl, which engage an eye d secured to the casings of the flues E. In the upper corner of the trunk A are passages d 61, connecting the'cha-mber D with the lower flue B. Upon the sides of the trunk A are two flues E E, which connect the compartments 0 c of the cylinder 0, through the apertures or openings 0 c and c a with the flue B ,the inner open sides of said flues at their upper ends standing opposite the inner portions of the heads of the cylinder and at their lower ends opposite the openings 0 in the sides of the trunk A. The cap D is provided with an apron-like plate D, of curvature coincident with that of the cylinder, also fitting down upon the cylinder 0. Projecting from the extreme upper edge of the bottom or an extension of the bottom of the trunk A, about tangentially to the partitions forming the compartments of the cylinder 0, is a plate E.

F is a vertical flue or chute into which flue B discharges. A suitable hinged door e is provided for access to the flue B. The flue B is lined with a coarse substance f-as, for instance, coarse sand-paper, emery-cloth, cardclothing, or other similar meansso that the cotton blown thereinto by the blast of the ginbrush in very small loose particles is slightly carded or straightened by contact with said coarse lining. 'The cotton is blown through the flue B into the compartment-chambers of the revolving cylinder C, and the blast seekin g an outlet carries the light lint-cotton against the wire-cloth of the said openings and also carries it against the roughened interior surface of the flue B. The'cotton being very light and fleecy, the dirt and other foreign substances are forced by the blast through the wire-cloth, while the cotton is carried by the rotation of the cylinder through the space or opening between the plates D and E. The dirt entering the chamber of the cap D'passes through the passages (1' into the flue B, and that entering the flues E through the openings 0 passes into the flue B through the openings the whole contents of flue B being discharged into the chute or flue F and out through an opening in the gin-house floor. The cotton falls on the ginhouse fioor all in one mass, as in an old-fashioned lint-room, having been sufficiently compressed by the blast to prevent it from being blown away by a light wind. The cotton is delivered in a light, clean, straight, and uniform condition.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The cotton-gin condenser having acylinder provided with heads and divided into compartment-chambers by radial blades, said cylinder having its heads provided with wirecloth-covered openings, a cap provided with a wire-cloth bottom, the inclined trunk subdivided into two flues and having vertical passages, and inclined side flues outside of said trunk,one fiueofthe trunk connectingthrough said vertical passages with the semicircular chamber of the cap fitting partly over said cylinder, the said flue also connecting with the compartment-chambers of the cylinder through said side fiues and openings, substantially as set forth.

2. The cotton-gin condenser having the trunk provided with fines, the cap having a wire-cloth bottom applied to its chamber, passages connecting one of said flues with said chamber, side flues connecting with the same trunk-flue through openings, and the compartment-cylinder having Wire-cloth-covered openings in its heads communicating with said flues, substantially as set forth.

3. The cotton-gin condenser having the cap provided with a semicircular chamber and the trunk provided with two fines and vertical and lateral passages, the lower flue connecting by said vertical passages with said semicircular chamber, the cylinder having radial compartments and blades, the heads of said cylinder having Wire-cloth-covered openings, the side fiues connecting with the compartments of said cylinder through said wirevcloth-covered openings and with the lower flue of the said trunk through said lateral passages or openings, the plates, one applied to said cap and the other to the upper edge of the trunk, and the chute or fiue connecting with the lower flue of the trunk, substantially as specified. H

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 7

CORNELIUS YOUNG. Witnesses:

RoBT. W. YOUNG, J. W. ROBINSON. 

